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AfterShip Integration: Minimum subscription is now $99/mo for Tracking API #106933

Closed agh closed 1 week ago

agh commented 6 months ago

The problem

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/aftership contains information which is now incorrect, AfterShip has made all access to the Tracking APIs a $99/mo minimum subscription, this after the note here saying it moved from the Free Tier up to the Essentials Tier. I was willing to entertain $11/mo but 9x more is a bit much!

What's stated above and is now inaccurate:

AfterShip recently removed the tracking API functionality from the Forever Free plan. The tracking API functionality requires at least the Essentials plan.

What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue?

core-2023.12.4

What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core?

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What type of installation are you running?

Home Assistant Container

Integration causing the issue

aftership

Link to integration documentation on our website

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/aftership

Diagnostics information

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Example YAML snippet

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Anything in the logs that might be useful for us?

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Additional information

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home-assistant[bot] commented 6 months ago

aftership documentation aftership source

agh commented 5 months ago

@maxandersen Do you happen to still use AfterShip?

maxandersen commented 5 months ago

Not much and its news to me they shut Down the api. Got No warning/notification about that. Got a link for that?

maxandersen commented 5 months ago

Actually - to be clear i moved off aftership a while ago. I mixed it up with seventeentrack.

So No. I dont use it anymore.

agh commented 3 months ago
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https://www.aftership.com/pricing/tracking

I was in contact with their Customer Support and they confirmed that Aftership now requires a minimum spend of $99/mo to use the Tracking APIs. It looks like it was once free and then went through a ~$5-10/mo monetization, and is now behind a $99/mo "gate".

I'm not sure how to formally suggest removing this integration, it doesn't seem to have an active maintainer, has no upstream support from Aftership, and is probably mostly unaffordable to Home Assistant users now it costs $99+ a month.

agh commented 3 months ago

☝🏻 Threw together a quick PR just to update the documentation to clarify you now need to pay for the Pro plan in order to use Aftership's Tracking API, at $99/mo (annual commitment) or $119/mo (monthly) cost.

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